Bridget Phillips
@jingibus.bsky.social
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Android person on the loose! Former Cash App, Instagram, BNR.
http://www.billjings.net
Dare is 100% correct in his point, *and also*, unrelated to that point: LastPass was bought by private equity, which got rid of the load bearing security engineering, then divested LastPass before the catastrophic security incidents. So: know your vendor's strategy!
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"Providing shareholder value is a capitalist’s euphemism for transferring power from labour to capital."
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The whole thread is worth reading. Those of us who were in the trenches at Block in the past 6mo have so, so much to process about what has happened there. A real thing truly hove into view this past year, but it felt like our executive class did not see it with rational clarity.
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3 days ago
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David Dayen
3 days ago
This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich
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Ken Jennings
3 days ago
Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
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The truth, it burns
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Zac Sweers
5 days ago
Good thread. OSS at most companies is really just a handful of dedicated individuals that the company loves to advertise but constantly threatens
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Petition for write of certiorari denied in Thaler vs Perlmutter. This means that AI generated works continue to be ineligible for copyright.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
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Docket for 25-449
https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-449.html
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Square literally does not know or care about any of this. No reason to participate. Many projects are effectively maintained outside the company now, and those engineers may choose to fork simply as a way to indicate that Block is not involved.
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My CEO told me efficiency keeps eating his companies so I asked how many companies he has and he said he just goes to the VCs and gets a new company afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding startups to efficiency and then his daughter started crying
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Ugh, the truth. It burns WorkManager does indeed render you vulnerable to these problems. As does any persistent storage
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7 days ago
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Chris Horner
8 days ago
Very sad it had to end like this. The Cash Android team and my design systems team was really special and I'm going to miss everyone.
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My big lesson for the week is: don't ask the monkey's paw for a free laptop
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Estimates are that 70% of Block engineering was laid off today.
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Ray Ryan • Abolish DHS
9 days ago
I suspect it will be a different watershed moment: Jack has just torpedoed Square and Cash App, and when real people start losing real money as a result this will become the horror story that people point to when warning of the limits of AI driven coding.
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Andrew Lawrence
9 days ago
i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything
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Almost all of Cash Mobile Engineering was laid off today. None of us have any clue what their rubric was for choosing who stayed and who went, but whatever it was, I'm on the job market again!
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Pleased to report that my vibe coded jujutsu stacked PR github pusher really sucks ass and is slow as balls
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What is my involvement with Metro? I advocate vigorously for things like naming the proposal system "MEEPs"
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Zac Sweers
11 days ago
Metro 0.11.0 is out now, along with a new proposal system called MEEPs!
www.zacsweers.dev/metro-0-11-0...
Release:
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Metro 0.11.0 and MEEPs!
Metro 0.11.0 is out now and it's a fun milestone in Metro's development. Up to this point most of the work in Metro has been focused around the foundation, interop, and frankly feature parity. It's in...
https://www.zacsweers.dev/metro-0-11-0-and-meeps/
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Emily St. James
11 days ago
Going to reshare this again for no real reason whatsoever.
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Stop worrying about what happens if we let kids transition. Worry about what happens if we don’t.
What’s so scary about a transgender child?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23281683/trans-kids-transition-medicine-surgery
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David Dayen
11 days ago
The numbers here are really important.
prospect.org/2026/02/24/t...
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This applies to everything, by the way. The best engineers I know also visibly have a lot of fun doing it.
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13 days ago
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Erin Reed
13 days ago
Often in my speeches, I say how the best activism rarely looks like activism. It looks like doing something you love and bringing it to others. When they connect with you in that way, it creates a sort of cognitive dissonance that can actually change hearts and minds.
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Jesse Wilson
14 days ago
Dear Competition Bureau Canada...
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Keep Android Open
Google is building a digital lock into Android. It's a very bad idea and I hate it. The excellent organizers at keepandroidopen.org encouraged me to complain to the Competition Bureau of Canada. What ...
https://publicobject.com/2026/02/21/keep-android-open/
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Zac Sweers
16 days ago
Re: Dependency Injection vs. Service Locators
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Re: Dependency Injection vs. Service Locators
This is a port of a write-up I did in the Kotlin Lang slack here in response to the question "Dagger vs. Hilt vs. Koin vs. Metro vs. <what comes next>. Serious question: Are there any compelling reasons to switch from Koin to Metro in a Compose Kotlin multiplatform project?" I think it's</what>
https://www.zacsweers.dev/re-dependency-injection-vs-service-locators/
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Listening to that one Trail of Dead album while I watch claude read web sites for me on how jj and gh work The more things change, the closer I will hold my teddy bear
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The vibes are horrible. I am trapped in bed, trying to recover from sickness. So you know what that means Time for me to report on what is up in the world of the limited subset of DC comics I follow
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I am not even in that deep, and this is already happening to me. Wife was packing for our first camping trip with baby. I kept popping back to my work computer to give claude feedback on plan revisions. I'm in bed sick today. Computer is in the next room. And it is waiting for input
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I'm writing an internal piece comparing two blog posts, one that went viral from Matt Shumer:
x.com/mattshumer_/...
And one that popped up a couple days ago from OpenAI engineering:
openai.com/index/harnes...
Either Matt Shumer has no idea what his engineers are doing, or he's full of shit.
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Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
22 days ago
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This thread summarizes the state of play of AI in a way I 100% agree with. We are in for a bumpy ride, because this ownership structure is not sustainable.
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Anybody else out there thought of just starting up a consultancy
25 days ago
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It's really hard to hold the examples of Aaron Swartz and modern genAI companies in your head without getting really angry at how the law is used in the US. If you're in a certain class of folks, you make your case and get an exception. The other class? No quarter given.
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David Aronchick
26 days ago
What would YOU do with $600B+.
www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-02-09-o...
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One Year After DeepSeek and The $600 Billion Question
What would you do with a sum of money equivalent to 2% of the US GDP?
https://www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-02-09-one-year-after-deepseek/
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Look, I will cheer on a bitcoin crash as much as the next hater. Target price $0? Truth, speak it But a 50% drop off the recent peak? That's just Bitcoin doing its thing. It dropped $60k->$20k, and that didn't break the fever.
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Ben Oberkfell
about 1 month ago
As we stare down February, it’s time to bring this back out
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Whole 'nother Story - February
YouTube video by KMOX
https://youtu.be/38PB3sBZxf4?si=r6Ss3MLoY-7Csldz
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David Dayen
about 1 month ago
Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
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Oh, important note: Cash/Square/Block is helping support metro. Because we get a lot of benefit from it! If you do, too — easy spend to justify
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Zac Sweers
about 1 month ago
👋 Hi everyone, I’m enabling GitHub Sponsors for Metro If Metro has improved your developer experience or saved your team's build times, I’d appreciate the support! Full pitch and ROI napkin math here:
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Sponsoring Metro
Metro is the proudest work of my career. Ever since starting it on vacation in November 2024, building it has been an incredible journey and the community reception has been nothing short of wonderful...
https://www.zacsweers.dev/sponsoring-metro/
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Parker Molloy
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We should be upset about what Tim Cook has done, but... he's an employee of Apple's board who runs Apple. And Apple is there to build and sell computers. The lesson isn't "What a bad guy Tim Apple is," it's "CEOs won't protect you". It's threats to their companies that wake them up at night.
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Worth jumping through the hoops to get past the paywall for this one.
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about 1 month ago
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Huh TIL that the Timberwolves have a chaplain, and that he can write
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about 1 month ago
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Jesse Wilson
about 1 month ago
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AI tribalism
“Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” – ClickHole “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes, paraphr…
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/01/24/ai-tribalism/
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Justin Ling
about 1 month ago
I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.
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Jesse Wilson
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written ’cause we don't all get this right
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Don’t Block Suspend Functions
Here’s a program that launches 3 jobs. The first runs forever and the other two exchange a value. @Test fun test() = runTest { val channel = Channel<String>() val deferredA = async { whi...
https://publicobject.com/2026/01/22/dont-block-suspend-functions/
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So why not just use an open source PR stacking solution, like
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, instead of JJ? I haven't used either of these, but I can give you an argument from first principles why these are unlikely to be great solutions.
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GitHub - cesarferreira/stax: The fastest stacked-branch workflow for Git. Interactive TUI, smart PRs, safe undo. Written in Rust.
The fastest stacked-branch workflow for Git. Interactive TUI, smart PRs, safe undo. Written in Rust. - cesarferreira/stax
https://github.com/cesarferreira/stax
about 1 month ago
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Oh, classic.
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about 2 months ago
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Okay, now I'm interested
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about 2 months ago
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Sad but true fact: Paw Patrol is copawganda
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